Raymond Farrell

By GREGORY ZELLER // A high-octane effort to unite regional bioentrepreneurs with qualified business mentors has formally launched – though the Long Island BioMentor Initiative is already quite busy. The LIBMI officially accepted its first program applications in a “launch event” Thursday morning at the de Seversky Mansion on the New York Institute of Technology’s Old Westbury campus. But the BioMentor Initiative is already a year into a “pilot phase,” according to founding mentor Mark…

Snow kidding: Another whitewashed workweek is in the books, dear readers, and if you thought Wednesday’s surprise snowstorm was a shocker, just be glad you weren’t in England 127 years ago today. That’s when the Great Blizzard of 1891 began its tear across the UK. Featuring 15-foot snowdrifts and crippling winds, the five-day snowmageddon is blamed for the deaths of 200 people and more than 6,000 animals. According to the story, snow piles were still…

By GREGORY ZELLER // United States negotiators returning from the Land of the Rising Sun are reporting progress on international “patent harmonization” efforts. A seven-member delegation of the American Intellectual Property Law Association recently completed a trip to Japan, where delegates participated in intensive discussions with the Trilateral Patent Office – a three-headed body encompassing the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Japan Patent Office and the European Patent Office. The talks focused mostly on…

By GREGORY ZELLER // Sensing a “tipping point” for New York-based scientific research, a prominent Long Island law firm has upped its life sciences game. Melville-based Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt LLP has executed what senior partner and co-founder Raymond Farrell called a “significant expansion” of the firm’s Life Sciences Practice Group, adding “two of the highest quality PhD/JD patent attorneys around” after a years-long search. Those attorneys are John Resek and Carmella Stephens, both…